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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






2. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






3. A short saying with a moral.






4. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






5. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






6. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






7. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






8. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






9. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






10. A three-line stanza.






11. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






13. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






14. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






15. Broken down acts.






16. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






17. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






18. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






19. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






20. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






21. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






22. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






23. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






24. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






25. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






26. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






27. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






28. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






29. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






30. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






31. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






32. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






33. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






34. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






35. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






36. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






37. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






38. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






39. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






40. The organizational form of a literary work.






41. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






42. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






43. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






44. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






45. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






46. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






47. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






48. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






49. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






50. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.